Teeth

...obvious for its end. A not conventional story about the desire of a man across of his life. Decent animation, not bad story. But the detail saving the film remains the voice of Richard E. Grant.

So this morbid little animated curio sees an obviously disturbed man who from the earliest time in his life had a certain unhealthy fixation on his own teeth and an envious infatuation with the teeth of others and animals, losing his own through neglect and over many years he works to create a monstrous new set collected from various beasts of nature, which he finally completes as an old man, and after all his work the first time he tries out his new dental 'masterpiece' he gorily bites off his own tongue, apparently having been so obsessed with the aesthetic beauty of teeth that he forgot about what they are actually meant for, much to his cost! I reckon that this subtly macabre short isn't really meant to tell a story so much as it's trying to visually and orally bring a tone and atmosphere that eats at your nerves and morbidly gets under your skin, which it pulls off pretty good for such a short animation. Richard E. Grant's narration is awesome and his charming and deliciously eloquent tones really bring a ghastly little life and a decidedly loathsome intimacy to the whole short! It's disturbing without a need for monsters of any kind or any real gore, just all things teeth, the sounds of teeth, the dread of losing your teeth, how your mind recoils in Horror when the dentist does the drill and scraping thing!! It's a creepy little short animation that will probably make you cringe and feel a little uncomfortable at least once, and it'll definitely make you go eww! Darkly weird, someone put this together and animated it, and it put me on edge, and I quite liked that! "Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you" 💔

I watched this film earlier today, and even though I'm 15 it still bothered me. The sound design was extremely upsetting and gross. The narrators voice added to the eerie atmosphere of the short film as well. I have to say I wasn't surprised by the violent twist at the end. In fact, I thought the film was going to be brutally gory just because horror short films are either gore free or bubbling with graphic violence. The minimal violence made the story all the more impactful though. Another thing that really paid off here was the art style. The hyper-realism contrasted with the horror story to add to the foreboding scenario. Would recommend to anyone 16+.

I will never watch it again. Yes, it's creepy, not sure about the scare. But it's so ugly and loathsome. Never watched something like that, nor do I want to. If you easily get disturbed by the things medical students practice, then don't watch it.